Everything Rolls Down to Lowmost

About this book

Everything anyone loses ends up in Lowmost, the damp, lamplit town at the bottom of the world: umbrellas and spectacles, tempers that arrive as hot black pebbles, and memories that arrive as small stiff cards. One wet morning, an eleven-year-old girl wakes in a sorting bin at the Office of Found Things with a tag on her wrist: Item 6,118. She has no name and no past. Her memories are somewhere on the Office's shelves, but the rules say she must describe each one before she may see it. And when the first frost comes, everything unclaimed belongs to Lowmost forever, including any lost girl, who will forget she was ever anyone else. With a stubborn clerk, a sorter boy who loves Lowmost and a kindly councillor who thinks forgetting is a mercy, she has until the frost to work out who she is. Does she even want to know?